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Greetings, holiday shoppers, and welcome to the second annual edition of my long-running, nationally renowned column offering gift ideas for the hard-to-buy-for working person in your life. It's possible that millions of people found last year's ideas helpful — anything's possible, right? — even...

You've waited for that promotion since the day you were hired. You worked for it, sacrificed for it and planned for it. And now that it's here? Well, let's just say it's not the dream job you thought it would be. For many employees, the eventual move to a bigger job can be disappointing. "It's...

As an undergrad studying psychology and history at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Judah Viola began to see a disconnect between the research he was doing and its application to the outside world. "If I saw an interesting study, I would ask my professors if I could see a practical application...

John Randolph loves the month of December. Sure, he's a fan of holiday cheer, but the real reason the 39-year-old architect is a fan of the last month of the year is that it's when he can concentrate on more than just his regular deadlines. "All year long, I'm busting my butt to get information...

Happiness. That seems to be the goal, at least according to a wide array of self-help books and cute phrases on coffee mugs and aspirational cubicle signs and bosses telling us to smile more. To be happy — thrilled even — with our work is supposedly the true tell of whether we've found our niche....